"Improvised Music from Japan 2009 takes a look at improvised/experimental music festivals and concert series in Japan. Covered in the magazine are 33 of the many festival/series events taking place around the country. The articles (some written by the organizers themselves, others based on interviews of the organizers conducted in person or by e-mail) reveal the ideas, aims and feelings of the people on the small improvised/experimental music scene who work tirelessly to hold these events on an ongoing basis. There's also an appendix with photos taken at the 2008 Ftarri Festival Tokyo. In addition to the 128-page magazine (all bilingual English-Japanese), there are 3 CDs with a total of 31 tracks by 31 artists/groups, for an amazing range of music.

6. Suzueri/Jyoji Sawada/Takuji Kawai - aLiCe (5:22) Suzueri: vocal Jyoji Sawada: contrabass Takuji Kawai: piano Composition by Jyoji Sawada; words from a poem in Through the Looking-Glass, by Lewis Carroll Recorded by Isamu Iguchi at IAMAS in 2005 Mixed by Hidenobu Ito in 2009 Originally released on the album Licentia Poetica (Elegant Disc, ELECD-10) on November 4, 2009

4. Shinjiro Yamaguchi - Hanarete (7:00) Recorded by Shinjiro Yamaguchi at his home in May 2009

5. Satoshi Yashiro - Rolling up a 25-meter strip of hook-and-loop tape in a room (6:53) Recorded in August 2009 A recorded work reenacting, at the artist's home, an installation produced in 2007. A recording was made of the sound of a 25-meter-long strip of Velcro-type tape being rolled up by a computer-controlled motor.

7. Kanichiro Oda - Pouring into Water (two liters of water poured from a PET bottle into a river) (0:31)

8. Makoto Oshiro - Piped Unellion, Wind and a Doze (7:00) During my performance at an outdoor concert that was curated by a friend at a park located in Kofu, Yamanashi, the wind started to blow when I was playing around with feedbacks created between a piezo mike attached to a very thin metal panel and a speaker attached to a resonating tube. The unexpected interference caused by the wind flapping the metal panel was quite interesting, so I ended up playing along with that throughout the whole performance. This was an impressive incident, so I tried to reproduce the effect at home using the wind of a fan heater blowing towards the same setup. Contrary to what happened outdoors, the response was rather delicate in a way particular to closed spaces. The wind of the fan heater ended up making most of the sounds after I attached a spring and weight to the metal panel and hung a small piece of corallite right beside the metal panel. The only work I did during this recording was the obstructing of wind and the triggering of feedbacks. Actually, I sometimes fell asleep during the recording, which went on for a few hours, but that added an amusing spice to it so I decided to leave that portion in as the title. (Makoto Oshiro)